The scientific study and protection of biodiversity.
Goals: prevent extinction, maintain ecosystems and sustainable use. Approaches: protected areas, species recovery, restoration, community-based conservation. Interdisciplinary: ecology, genetics, economics and policy.
It is a crisis discipline combining science and values. Tools include population models, genetics and policy analysis.
Remember: success needs people's support and livelihoods.
The scientific study and protection of biodiversity.
Conservation Biology is one of the 52 topics in Taxonomy & Biodiversity. It is rated Beginner, so it suits learners who are starting out in biology. Related topics in this area include Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity, Ex-situ Conservation.
The Convention on Biological Diversity sets global targets.
Conservation Biology is a Beginner topic, so no earlier topic is required. Other Beginner topics in Taxonomy & Biodiversity that pair well with it include Taxonomy, Binomial Nomenclature, Taxonomic Hierarchy.
The closest topics to Conservation Biology are Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity, Ex-situ Conservation, Phylogenetic Diversity. Comparing them side by side is a good way to see how the ideas connect.
Read the summary and the in-depth section, then use the quick check on the interactive lesson for Conservation Biology. To practise the whole of Taxonomy & Biodiversity, use the Taxonomy & Biodiversity quiz.
Conservation Biology: The scientific study and protection of biodiversity. Biodiversity: The variety of life at the level of genes, species and ecosystems. Read both side by side and note what each one explains.
First, read the summary and write the definition in your own words. Second, read the in-depth section and note any example. Third, compare it with Biodiversity and explain the difference aloud. Finally, take the Taxonomy & Biodiversity quiz and come back to this page for any question you miss.
The variety of life at the level of genes, species and ecosystems.
🗂️ Taxonomy & BiodiversityVariation of alleles within a species that enables adaptation and resilience.
🗂️ Taxonomy & BiodiversityProtecting species outside natural habitat in zoos, seed banks and botanical gardens.
🗂️ Taxonomy & BiodiversityMeasures biodiversity by the total evolutionary history represented by a set of species.
🗂️ Taxonomy & Biodiversity